With version 9, we will release 2 editions of odoo: Odoo Community and Odoo
Enterprise.
Odoo Enterprise will consist of Odoo Community plus a set of enterprise only
features (or in technical term, an additional repository with extra modules).
Some new features that have been under developement latetly will be in
enterprise such as electronic signature, integration with shipping providers.
For example the crm_voip module (currently published as a paid app on the app
store) will be in the enterprise repository. However core modules like the new
accounting remains in the Community version.
Odoo community will be supported as much as Odoo enterprise, Odoo Community is
the foundation of Odoo Enterprise and it will remain free and open source as LGPL.
For technical users, they can access the code through the same GitHub
repository. The community version 9 will be at odoo/odoo#9.0 and the
development branch is still at odoo/odoo#master.
Odoo Enterprise users (and partners) will have access to the enterprise
repository containing only the additional modules.
You might have wondered why odoo master has not been pushed for a few weeks.
The reason is that we had some feature branches with those extra modules, we
did not want to push the merged branches as LGPL.
We are currently filtering the branch with git-filter-branch before we can
push it back to master.
Antony.